Building projects

France to get its first Moroccan Cultural Centre in 2018

The project will be funded entirely by the Kingdom of Morocco

Grand Palais revamp could leave Paris’s biggest shows without a roof

What will happen to key culture events held at the site, including Monumenta artist commission and Fiac fair?

Rotterdam museum to rent out public space to wealthy collectors

Visitors to the new open storage facility can tour private collections—and there could even be a freeport

Lisson opens New York space with solo shows for Carmen Herrera, John Akomfrah, Ryan Gander and Ai Weiwei

The purpose-built gallery underneath the High Line is a long-awaited step for the London dealer dynasty

David Attenborough opens £1.5m gallery for socially-engaged art

BBC naturalist inaugurated Lucy and Jorge Orta's show on environmental change at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester

Design museum rises in China—with a little help from the V&A

Partnership with state-owned conglomerate is a first for the London museum

V-A-C Foundation unveils plans for Renzo Piano-designed museum for Moscow

Vast contemporary art centre in former power station will include 100m-long nave

Unterlinden Museum, home of the Isenheim Altarpiece, officially reopened

The €44m renovation and expansion will be fully completed this spring

Museum of London looks for architect for Smithfield project

Plans are in motion to move the collection from the Barbican to the Victorian market

New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms

Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>

New Lithuanian art space to open in 2019

The first museum dedicated to Lithuanian Modern and contemporary art will open in the country’s capital

François Pinault denies Paris museum plan

Reports say city’s mayor will help to find site

Elmgreen & Dragset’s skinny dip in Miami Beach

Duo create one of six new works at convention centre

US presidents and Taiwan back Eisenhower Memorial

Frank Gehry revises controversial design but the family of the soldier and statesman remains unimpressed

Palestinian Museum partnership draws criticism

Not everyone is happy about the Institut du Monde Arabe's decision to co-found a museum in the West Bank

Poland’s richest woman plans new contemporary art museum for Warsaw

Grazyna Kulczyk has sold her culture centre in Poznan to dedicate herself to the project in the Polish capital

Milwaukee Art Museum pulls off expansion from depths of slump

Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession

London mayor: ‘if the Americans can put a man on the moon, they can build a museum in Stratford’

Boris Johnson says Smithsonian Institution still on board as capital’s planned cultural quarter on former Olympics site gets £45m in donations

Turner Prize-nominated collective, Assemble, plans to help convert Peckham car park into artists’ studios

Proposal is one of three being considered by Southwark Council in south London next week

Berlin’s most-visited museum gets a makeover

Renovation of the Pergamon Museum expected to be complete by 2019, with a new wing dedicated to Egyptian art to open by 2026

Shop 'til you Pop art: Lebanese retail tycoon opens museum-mall in Beirut

At Tony Salamé’s $100m Aishti Foundation, visitors can see a major show of abstract works or shop in a string of luxury boutiques

Three years late but with the entire human story in its sights

Revamp of Musée de l’Homme will chart humanity’s story from prehistory to the present—and future

Private fortunes drive Beirut’s museum boom

Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye get involved as donors step in to fill the funding gap

Centre Pompidou president promises pop-ups in Korea and China

Exhibitions on the Beat Generation, Beirut and Arte Povera also in the pipeline

Institut du Monde Arabe brings Scheherazade’s 1,001 nights to northern France

The Tourcoing outpost of the Parisian museum for Arabian culture due to move to historic building in city centre